"Judge and Jury by Erin Keane". Salon. July 24, 2011. Retrieved August 2, 2011. "They [writer-on-writer critical reviews] linger in the critical memory, like Dale Peck’s infamous charge in the New Republic that Rick Moody was, and we quote, "the worst writer of his generation". That review was crucial to a buzzed-about manifesto decrying nasty "snark", penned by another novelist, Heidi Julavits, in the Believer.